Which program file are you referring to? Can you be specific?

I tried a few more things:

Disabled UAC to see if driver was having problems with rights - no success,
same BSOD on boot

Downloaded and ran 'Driver Cleaner' from Guru3d which appeared to clean up a
few stray Nvidia registry entries (I REALLY thought that was it fixed)
however, upon reinstalling Nvidia driver it crashed again on boot with same
error.

Downloaded and ran 'Nvidia - nasty file remover' again removed some known
nvidia files but again no success.

Each time I am booting into safe mode, uninstalling nvidia driver (deleting
files), rebooting to safe mode, scrubbing driver files and registry entries,
rebooting to Vista normal and cancelling auto attempt to install driver for
7600GT (never install driver for this device). Then rebooting again to
windows normal and attempting to install latest official Nvidia drivers. Same
BSOD nvlddmkm.sys at boot...

I must have tried almost every driver/fault finding/troubleshooting
combination...

This is driving (ha) me nuts!




"JW" wrote:
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> I have one copy of the problem file in one of my system folders and it
> appears that it came with the original install of Vista. Have you tried
> renaming or deleting any copies of it on your system?
> Have you run check disk?
>
> "Smilerfive" <Smilerfive@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0718F7F5-9DA3-40CB-B1F7-F4A5A79C8F8A@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > Hi. THanks for your input. I have tried these various ideas for resolving
> > this issue but I am still int he same situation.
> >
> > Right now I have my machine running but it is without ANY installed driver
> > for my NVidia card. Therefore I only have very basic display
> > functionality.
> > Whih at least allows me some more tools to troubleshoot the problem.
> >
> > If I try to install any driver whatsoever then I get the same nvlddmkm.sys
> > error on boot. I've tried about 7 different drivers. Each time same thing.
> >
> > ANy more ideas people?
> >
> >
> > "JW" wrote:
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> >> From safe mode can you uninstall the update using Control Panel/Program
> >> and
> >> features/show all updates?
> >>
> >> "Smilerfive" <Smilerfive@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:D1C84BB5-170B-42B6-B774-46F89C20AEB6@microsoft.com...
> >> > August 27th, Vista Ultimate 32bit, Nvidia 7600GT, 4Gb Ram
> >> >
> >> > My Vista Ultimate system has an XFX NVidia 7600GT card in it. It has
> >> > been
> >> > working fine since the day I put it in. My system is always on and I
> >> > usually
> >> > let it update automatically via Windows Update as required.
> >> >
> >> > The other day I came home from work and began to notice a degradation
> >> > in
> >> > graphics quality. There were artefacts on the desktop and things were,
> >> > well,
> >> > twitching… I became concerned and then I noticed that Vista was
> >> > recovering
> >> > a
> >> > crashed Display Driver repeatedly (first I had ever seen that) and then
> >> > I
> >> > was
> >> > really concerned. I had not updated or changed anything myself so I
> >> > started
> >> > to check Windows Vista Update to see what it had updated in my absence.
> >> > I
> >> > only managed to begin to see that Update had downloaded or started to
> >> > download, among other things, an updated NVidia driver..
> >> >
> >> > I never got a chance to fault find any further since my system then
> >> > became
> >> > so unstable the graphics went for a loop and I could not make anything
> >> > out
> >> > on
> >> > screen. Next thing it somersaulted into a BSOD blaming nvlddmkm.sys
> >> >
> >> > Now my system will not boot up and immediately crashes with a BSOD
> >> > every
> >> > time blaming nvlddmkm.sys – an nvidia display driver. The only way I
> >> > can
> >> > get
> >> > into my system is via safe mode and it has limited tools, particularly,
> >> > it
> >> > does not allow access to Windows Update for me to check what Update
> >> > did,
> >> > what
> >> > it installed etc etc
> >> >
> >> > I don’t know the version of the driver that was working fine
> >> > previously. I
> >> > had never updated it since the card went in and it has worked fine ever
> >> > since, that is until this recent event. I don’t know what version
> >> > Windows
> >> > Update tried to install because I can’t check it out.
> >> >
> >> > What I’ve tried:
> >> > Installing a variety of updated drivers from NVidia Website including a
> >> > beta, from Safe Mode in Vista: no result, same BSOD
> >> > Rolling back driver to previous: no result, same BSOD
> >> > Using Sys Restore in Safe Mode to jump back to a previous known good
> >> > position: no result, same BSOD
> >> >
> >> > Basically my system is trashed because Update downloaded some monster
> >> > driver
> >> > that screwed up my system. Usually I’m pretty good troubleshooting and
> >> > fixing
> >> > these kinds of things, I work in IT, but this one has me stumped. I
> >> > have
> >> > no
> >> > idea what Update did and feel I have exhausted my troubleshooting
> >> > options.
> >> > Can anyone help me? Thanks.
> >> >
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